The Ming Dynasty conquered Luchuan three times, which was a large-scale expedition before the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty turned to decline in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.
In order to quell the rebellion of Homesick in the southwest border, nearly one million troops were mobilized.
From the sixth year to the fourteenth year of Zhengtong, three large-scale conquests were carried out over a nine-year period.
Although the homesickness force was basically eliminated in the end, it also greatly increased the burden on the people and drained the national treasury. This led to uprisings by farmers and miners everywhere.
The direct consequence was the consequences of Burma's rise. The consequences lasted until the Qianlong period.
Because of this, most scholars in later generations have a very poor evaluation of the Battle of Luchuan.
I believe that the Ming Dynasty should not have spent such a price to conquer this border chieftain.
But the author believes that the Ming Dynasty's conquest of Luchuan was the same as the Sui Yang Emperor's conquest of Goguryeo. He had no choice but to conquer.
At that time, Goguryeo occupied three provinces in Northeast China and northern Korea. It already had 4.5 million troops and became a border threat. If it was not eliminated in time and allowed to continue to grow, it would be dangerous in the future.
This is also the reason why Li Shimin finally destroyed Goguryeo.
At that time, Luchuan had occupied what is today northeastern India, part of Bangladesh, most of Myanmar, one-seventh of Yunnan, and parts of Laos and Thailand. Their family's territory occupied almost half of the Indochina Peninsula.
If we let them go, they will definitely cause border troubles. Just like the Tang Dynasty was exhausted by Nanzhao.
Although the Ming Dynasty failed to eliminate them, it also exhausted them. Yunnan and Guangxi maintained a stable situation for more than a hundred years. In the Qianlong Dynasty, they rose again and began to invade Yunnan and Guangxi.
Qianlong's expedition to Burma resulted in heavy casualties and great losses, almost draining the treasury. Qianlong continued to execute generals who failed to fight well, and conquered Burma four times, and finally relied on Fu Heng to stabilize the situation.
The three expeditions to Luchuan were the direct cause of the Tumubao Incident. Because at this time, the Ming Dynasty had already become stronger on the outside and was stronger on the inside. All the elites were consumed.
"I always feel that the fact that he was able to defeat more than 200,000 Beijing troops with 30,000 cavalry shows that he knows the situation of the Ming Dynasty very well," Yang Fan said.
Zhang Shize came closer and said mysteriously: "Let me tell you something exciting, there is an inside story here. We all underestimated him first. He is a master of using spies, and he is similar to the slave-building thief chief Nurhachi. The two of them are
Between brothers."
"There really is a spy, who is he?" Yang Fan said in surprise.
tnnd It turns out that the Ming Dynasty has been infiltrated. All the information has been mastered. How can it be undefeated?
"Who are they? You should ask how many people there are." Zhang Size took a bite of fried peanuts, then took a sip of white wine and burped.
"What, it's not one person, it's a large group of people. Who are they?" Yang Fan asked in surprise.
"Those who have gone up to the Royal Horse Prison, from the Sixth Department of the Chaotang to the generals from the two towns of Xuanda, have been instigated to rebel first."
"What!" Yang Fan was shocked. It would be terrible if even the people in the Royal Horse Prison were instigated to rebel.
This shows that the emperor has some informants around him.
This is true, and physical evidence has been unearthed in later generations. According to the "Illustration of Talisman Medals of the Past", the waist medal unearthed in Southern Siberia (the territory of the Choros family) belonged to the Royal Horse Supervisor of the Ming Dynasty.
In the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Horse Guards were in charge of the imperial army and were an extremely important military position. They were responsible for the safety of the emperor.
Since the Royal Horse Prison is very important, its waist card is also very important. Anyone without a waist card will be guilty of a serious crime. Anyone who lends his waist card to others without authorization is guilty of the same crime as the borrower. Therefore, this incident shows that there were internal conflicts in the Ming Dynasty
Traitor.
"This man is a great eunuch, called "Cripple Gan". He was the young eunuch of the imperial horse at that time. He was a Mongolian who surrendered to the previous dynasty. I don't know when he was instigated to rebel first. After the fiasco of Tumubao, Jinyiwei and Dong
The factory arrested him, and finally he confessed and was executed."
Yang Fan gasped, it was too scary.
The Royal Horse Supervisor in charge of the imperial army actually collaborated with the enemy and planted nails around the emperor. Ye Xian really had two brushes. No wonder he was able to unify Mongolia as a non-golden family member with a foreign surname.
"At that time, Ye Xian's army besieged the Tumubao camp on all sides. When the battle between the two sides was in full swing, the Royal Horse Supervisor Shao Ergan led the army to suddenly appear and shot the emissary Li Ding to death with arrows. He also commanded the army to rebel and attack the emperor.
Pro-army. At that time, the Ming army killed each other and trampled upon each other. Countless people died."
Zhang Shize continued: "The Record of Ming Yingzong recorded that "the defeat of Lai'ergan and Tumu helped the captives to counterattack and shot the inner envoy Li Ding." "The Record of the Northern Envoy" records: "Ye Xian was surrounded by men and horses, and there was a big battle, and the army turned against him.
, destroying each other."
"These two records clearly show that there was indeed a large-scale rebellion in the Ming army at that time. The former even named Lai'ergan to launch the rebellion. Lai'ergan was a member of the Royal Horse Supervisor, which is why Wala can understand the Ming army every time
Where to go, and the Ming army couldn't find the reason why it was first. And the reason why the army collapsed at the first touch."
Zhang Shize said this and suddenly thought, Yang Fan just said that the border troops attacked Yu Jia when he was suspicious.
He said: "Nie Zhong, the Jin Yiwei, also reported that in the 14th year of the Zhengtong Emperor's campaign against the Hu invaders, when he returned to Tumu and set up camp, suddenly there were bright helmets on the south slope, and Ming Jia men and horses came to greet them. They were suspected to be warriors. The sentries and horses were not there.
As equipment, the defeated army was trapped."
"When the person you mentioned saw this piece of historical data, he took it for granted that those with bright armor must be the Ming army's frontier troops who came to attack the emperor. In fact, these people were the rebels brought by Laergan, that is, the emperor.
The soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp were under the control and command of the horse supervisor. There were several Mongolian troops in the Beijing camp. The army thought that the reinforcements were unprepared, so they took the opportunity to rush over directly. The whole army was in chaos. They did not distinguish between ourselves and the enemy and started fighting in a melee.
Take the opportunity to attack first, and our army will be defeated."
"And those people are spies. Who are the internal agents of the border army?" Yang Fan was so shocked today that he couldn't help but ask.
"Wala knew all the true and false movements of the Ming Dynasty's border defense through the Wala envoys who lived in the Ming Dynasty and the high, middle and low-level traitors in the Ming court. The time of the attack was chosen very appropriately."
"I don't know much. You can ask Lin Yueru in the future. She has done fine eucalyptus production in Mongolia. She should know more than me. Among them are the high-ranking official Sai Yin Buhua and the family of Guo Jing, the senior eunuch of the Four Dynasties.
Uncle, Yizhou Guardsmen Wang Wen, Li Rang, Shi Daier, Xining, Wang Xi, Xiao Tianer, Jia Shilingzhen and others."
"The young daughter of Li Rang, the commander of Datong, is the daughter-in-law of your late brother, King Datong. He was first promised to know the palace, and he was secretly rewarded with four horses and two captive women. He reported all the names of the commanders in each city to Ye Xian.
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Yang Fan angrily cursed, these traitors, everything that happened in the Ming Dynasty was ruined by them. The Ming Dynasty was so infiltrated from the palace to the imperial court, from the capital camps to the border troops, how could it be undefeated.
Zhang Shize didn't react at all and took a sip of wine. He seemed to be immune to such nonsense.
"Although these traitors are hateful, two of them are derelict in their duties and one is stupid. They are even more annoying. Without these three people, the Battle of Tumubao would not have been fought. Ming Dynasty would not have lost its national destiny."
Yang Fan nodded and said: "Any war has triggers, which are both accidental and inevitable. Who are these three people?
Yang Fan understood Zhang Shize's words very well.
Yang Fan had seen a photo, which was the last gathering of the European royal family before World War I. They were all relatives. Either cousins, uncles, grandma, grandpa, etc.
After finishing the meal, they started fighting.
Everyone here wants to fight. There is only one person who keeps trying to persuade everyone not to start a war. He is Archduke Ferdinand.
As a result, he was beaten to death on the streets of Sarajevo. This incident also became the trigger for World War I.
